In view of the increasing diversity of fungal pathogens in high risk patients, the differences in the antifungal spectrum of the available agents, and the looming threat of resistance ...

particularly in children. In future, research-specific attention should be paid to selected subpopulation groups, such as neonates and patients with organ failure. The studies surveying the total ...

Between 2020 and 2021, the U.S. saw a 95 percent rise in these treatment-resistant infections, roughly a third of which were ...

Understanding fungal infections These infections are caused by various types of fungi that invade and multiply in the body, ...

Hair fungal infection - known as tinea capitis - in school-age children affected a similar number. It causes a painful infected scalp and leaving many with hair loss. Major contributors to death were ...

Fungal infections are evolving and becoming resistant to the medicines used to treat them, causing what some researchers are calling a "silent pandemic" that needs to be addressed urgently.

A deadly fungal infection that is hard to treat is spreading rapidly at an "alarming" rate, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). US cases nearly doubled in 2021 - from 756 to ...

But bacteria aren't the only mutating pathogens we need to worry about. Fungal infections are also adapting beyond the means of our medicine, causing a "silent pandemic" that needs to be addressed ...